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Why do we get attached and how do we get over the feeling of attachment? It is very painful when the person whom we are attached to chooses to leave us.
Remember, whatever is yours will always be yours. Whatever is not yours will come for a little while and then go. Wake up! Go deep in knowledge. ...Gurudev, how do I know that I am doing what you expect me to do? Am I on the right path? At times I feel very weak and cry a lot. How can I stop my tears?
When you feel weak I am with you as your strength, you are not alone. Whenever you feel weak, know that you are not alone. Be clear with what you want in your life and what you want to do. Then plan and move on those plans. Sitting and crying bei ...But what about people who have betrayed me?
Leave them and don’t be concerned. Uproot them from your heart. If they have betrayed you that is their karma, and your karma was to get betrayed and now it is over. The score has been settled. ...Jai Guru Dev, whom so ever I have loved whether my family or friends all have betrayed me and whatever I do for them goes wrong. I want to do something different and prove myself to them.
What is the use of trying to prove yourself to them? If you attempt to prove something to them, it will only lead to a waste of energy. Leave it and move on. Instead do what you want for yourself. If you something good to prove to others, anyways ...Beloved Guruji, in the world if we are in love with someone we have to cry. But if we are in love with you, then too we have to cry. What to do?
‘Kabira hasana door Kar, rone se kar preeti, bin roye kyon paiye, prem piyara meet.’ If some tears of love and of longing are shed then that is good, makes life worthwhile. ...In Ashtavakra you say to drop sense objects if you wish for freedom. Sometimes human values like compassion, love, etc., depend on sense objects. Should I drop this also?
Yes, don’t hold on to anything, let go! Compassion and love is your nature, those will remain in you. There is a saying in Hindi, ‘neki kar kue mein daal’. If you think, ‘I am so good and everybody is bad’, that will make you sad. This attitude is ...Your advice is that we pick out and vote for an honest candidate. What should we do if all the candidates are corrupt?
That is why I want a revision of the electoral system also. Our electoral system allows for a candidate to win an election with just eleven percent votes, which means eighty percent public has voted for other candidates. We need to change the electoral pro ...What is the plan of Art of Living to enter into active politics?
Art of Living has none because we are in so many countries, in so many places. We don’t want to get into politics at any cost. At the same time we would definitely take responsibility in supporting the right person, the right candidate. So you all have to ...My parents are divorcing after thirty eight years of marriage. How to help them? I don’t want to take sides. Would you tell me what to do?
Listen to both of them separately and don’t comment. Tell your father your mother loves him very much, and you tell your mother that your father loves her very much. And when there is love, there are fight and there is difference of opinion also. ...Gurudev, please tell me, what is my role in this life with respect to you? I want to do just that and not yearn for some role which you have not assigned to me.
See what you can do. Make a list of all that you can do and I tell you, you can do more than what you write down. So first make your own list. ...